Example sentences of "[det] [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may possibly be able to greatly increase that distance but of that I can not speak with certainty . ’ |
| 2 | Old Kaspar replies : ’ Why that I can not tell , ' said he , But' t was a famous victory . ' ’ |
| 3 | Whether there is anything in that I can not say , but one of the golden rules of banking , ‘ once bitten , twice shy ’ , seems to be waived for Czechoslovaks . |
| 4 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 5 | On this I can not resolve the conflict between the various affidavits . |
| 6 | Though this I can not guarantee . |
| 7 | In a book such as this I can not say more than that about how the modern fieldworking anthropologist conducts his research . |
| 8 | This I can not accept : it seems impossible that such a central part , mathematics , of such a political institution , education , should really be politically neutral . |
| 9 | Without this we can not engage in any worthwhile legal work or provide access to items . |
| 10 | Even with a simple system like this we can not draw direct conclusions about the functions of a component from knowing what is lost when we destroy it . |
| 11 | This they can not do , mainly because they take out of context the parental characteristics they are studying and then average out all fluctuations over time and situation . |
| 12 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 13 | To fall , in , towards the nucleus it would have to lose all its energy , and this it can not do as it is continually absorbing energy from the ether which balances with the amount it naturally radiates . |
| 14 | In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter . |
| 15 | The sceptic says that there is a difference between the two hypotheses but that you can not tell it since it is evidence-transcendent . |
| 16 | ‘ When he serves like that you can not get to the ball , ’ said the Swede . |
| 17 | Other other than that you can not guarantee planning permission . |
| 18 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 19 | So either one can not imagine postal activity in isolation , because it is conceptually bound up with so much else , or one can imagine it as the futile activity of a deluded loner . |
| 20 | By not knowing and by feeding these fears , you have played into the hands of the mentor whose dedication is to keep you away at all costs from your higher self and who will feed off your essence and life energy , as without these it can not live . |
| 21 | erm Turner replied , ‘ If you go up to the top of Mount Edgecombe , and look at the ships against the light , with the setting sun behind them , you will realise that one can not distinguish the portholes . ’ |
| 22 | What this boils down to , briefly , is this : that one can not treat " Shakespeare " as a " rigid designator " without at the same time assuming that some essence " attaches to it , and hence that certain descriptions necessarily go with it , although no such description , or set of descriptions , can fully reproduce its " meaning " . |
| 23 | Now the one thing that I think is important is that one can not look at the problems of any given society in the world in isolation from the rest of the world as a whole , and in particular , in the case of underdeveloped countries , their problems are very much linked to the situations that take place in the developed countries . |
| 24 | There are many who can not pay . |
| 25 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 26 | ‘ Most of all we can not renege on our responsibilities to our own people , ’ Mr O'Neill said . |
| 27 | Yet Nature , on to whom we pitch responsibility for all we can not understand , is n't very good when set to automatic . |
| 28 | Whereas comedy can enable us to know the world better , stories of mystery and horror insist on all we can not know and therefore increase our fear of a disordered , malefic universe . |
| 29 | 1.10 It appears that nearly all languages make at least one division in the words of their vocabulary , morphologically or syntactically , or in both ways , between those which commonly do instantiate and those which can not instantiate entities ; the former are traditionally called nouns , and there is a very high degree of intuitive agreement in cross-linguistic identification of nouns precisely because speakers of even widely different cultures are disposed to agree in what they regard as entities rather than properties . |
| 30 | To ensure the widest scope for getting the best deal it is necessary to exclude those which can not supply on the terms required . |